genesis emulator and games

[qwerty02rawr]

ok, qwerty here. because i am the BIGGEST newb here, i don't know how to download an emulator and games. i mean, i'm afraid that i'm going to kill my computer, and i really don't want to explain to my mom how our only computer died because of screwed up files. it's happened before, and i don't want it to happen again can someone please explain to me (in english, not techno-talk o.o) how to use this site properly?


qwerty signing out ^^

[SA-X]

First off, you'll need to get less paranoid parents an emulator; here has a couple which work fine, and we all love and trust EP, so viruses and whatnot aren't likely to kill anything .

Just download the Binary, and then you'll need to extract that file using a program like WinZip, WinRar or 7zip. This is the most popular Archiving tool, so download the trial (don't worry, it doesn't run out ).

Once extracted you'll have the emulator in the form of various files (don't delete any, as the text files are to do with the Emulator's settings). You run it by using the executable file (Gens.exe for example).

Once that's done, get a the Rom's you want from here.
This'll come as a ZIP file, but you wont have to extract like you did the Emulator, so just open GENS or whatever emulator you're using, and press File => Load Rom, or something to that effect.

And you're done, play your games after configuring your input (keyboard or joypad) and enjoy.

Hope that's simple enough

[greendayrulestc]

And if your still paranoid, I will say this site is fine and trustworthy, and there are some others as well.

[SegNin]

This emulator will play virtually every Sega game, except Saturn, DreamCast or Arcade:
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=kega

Guide to using it:
http://www.fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/emuhelp_kfusion.htm

Download the BIOS files you'll need here:
http://www.epforums.org/local_links....p&id=3&catid=3

Places where you can get the roms:
http://www.emuasylum.com/
http://www.coolrom.com/roms.php
http://doperoms.com/
http://www.planetemu.net/
http://www.rom-world.com/
http://romhustler.net/

No need to worry about viruses in any of these files.

And welcome to EmuParadise, and to the world of emulation.

[SA-X]

My post got trumped

I may have to grab that emulator *ponders*

[Evans]

Oh, saddened to learn that we don't host ROMs anymore.

[SegNin]

Oh, saddened to learn that we don't host ROMs anymore.

SA-X already gave the link to EP's Genesis roms, so that's why I didn't:

Once that's done, get a the Rom's you want from here.

Instead I gave him links to some of the other best rom sites for someone who's brand new to emulation.
And of course, EmuParadise is among those sites (that's why I said other).

[clownb]

Kega is a godsend. You really can't go wrong with it. It was nice to finally have the ability to play the Sega CD games I've been collecting for some strange reason over the years.